India summons New Zealand envoy over ridicule of Delhi chief

Paul Henry's comments brought a swift complaint from India's Ministry of External Affairs Photo: AFP/GETTY
Controversial Breakfast show host Paul Henry caused an outcry when he burst into fits of laughter while saying Mrs Dikshit's name, pronouncing it 'Dick Shit.'

Pakistan blast kills seven at shrine

The blasts at the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine came on a Thursday evening, the busiest time of the week for Sufi shrines across the country Photo: AFP/GETTY
Security officials responding to the blasts at the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine said they had found some suspicious packages and were evacuating people as quickly as possible.

Radical Islam has outmanoeuvred West, says Blair

Tony Blair stressed that the achievement of a peace settlement between Israel and Palestine would remove 'much of the poison which the extremists use' Photo: EPA
In a speech in New York, the former prime minister said that warnings over the past week of terrorist plots against Europe should remind people that they remained under threat.

Galileo satellite device 'over budget, running later and unprofitable'

Galileo is intended to offer a superior accuracy of one metre (yard), compared to up to 10 metres for GPS Photo: AFP
Extra costs of up to 1.7 billion euros (£1.5 million) are expected and the project will not be ready for at least another seven years, according to a European Commission report cited by the Financial Times Deutschland.

Sir Sean Connery ordered to appear before a Spanish court next week

The Scottish actor and his second wife, the French artist Micheline Roquebrune are to be questioned about the 1999 sale of their beachside home on the Costa del Sol.

BP oil spill investigation critical of White House reaction to crisis

The revelations from the National Oil Spill Commission come as the Democratic Party struggles to retain control of the US Congress in the elections on Nov 2.

The commission said that after the rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers, the government was too optimistic about the oil company's ability to bring the ruptured well under control.

Hungarian toxic sludge reaches Danube river

The sludge reached the Danube's Mosoni Branch, about six miles from the main branch of the river this morning, according to Tibor Dobson, head of the disaster relief services.

Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in literature

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa Photo: REUTERS
The Swedish Academy said it honoured the 74-year-old author, considered one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking work, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat."

Hutton review: unions warn of strikes over pension reform - Telegraph

Lord Hutton, a former Labour cabinet minister who is reviewing public sector pensions for the Coalition, said the current gulf between public and private sector schemes was "fundamentally unfair".

Base jumping: the KL Tower International Base Jump 2010 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The 2010 KL Tower International Base Jump in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Walter Hilscher of Germany leaps from the tower
Picture: AP/Lai Seng Sin